Dear Folks -
"Bwana" Dave wrote:
>It would be even easier to retcon that the X-boat tender didn't have an
>enclosed shirt-sleeve hangar for X-boats it "carries"; it could have
>external grapples to grab onto them and maintain them and even jump with
>them. End of quandary. Now we're back to how much waste space there is in a
>ship that carried a small craft and needs room to turn it around, take it
>apart, put it up on jacks, maneuver it to its launch and entry ports, and
>allow cargo to be efficiently carried to and loaded aboard it.
What you need is magmagmag's magnificent jaw-dropping image of the X-boat
Tender in all its glory, grappling and maintaining a couple of X-boats...
Take a look at the rounded cargo bay walls here:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/73/d3/f873d3652344baf5974b4f7cb3fec4a6.jpg
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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
"Bwana" Dave wrote:
>It would be even easier to retcon that the X-boat tender didn't have an
>enclosed shirt-sleeve hangar for X-boats it "carries"; it could have
>external grapples to grab onto them and maintain them and even jump with
>them. End of quandary. Now we're back to how much waste space there is in a
>ship that carried a small craft and needs room to turn it around, take it
>apart, put it up on jacks, maneuver it to its launch and entry ports, and
>allow cargo to be efficiently carried to and loaded aboard it.
What you need is magmagmag's magnificent jaw-dropping image of the X-boat
Tender in all its glory, grappling and maintaining a couple of X-boats...
Take a look at the rounded cargo bay walls here:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/73/d3/f873d3652344baf5974b4f7cb3fec4a6.jpg
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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"